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Author Belden-Adams, Kris, author.

Title Eugenics, 'aristogenics, ' photography : picturing privilege / Kris Belden-Adams
Edition 1st edition
Published Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 235 pages) : illustrations
Contents Harvard's "class" portraits : composite pictures and a New England "artistogenic" agenda -- A "dandy" masculinity? Establishing and respecting cisgender norms, using photography -- Social poise and demure confidence : swaying the college women to be the essential players in positive eugenics -- Biometrics and posture pictures : "we did what we were told."
Summary This is the first study to explore the connections between late-19th-century university/college composite class portraits and the field of eugenics - which first took hold in the United States at Harvard University. Eugenics, "Aristogenics," Photography takes a closer look at how composite portraiture documented an idealized reality of the New England social-caste experience and explains how, when positioned in relation to the individual stories and portraits of members of the class, the portraits reveal points of non-conformity and rebellion with their own rhetoric
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Kris Belden-Adams is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Mississippi, USA
Subject Photography -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Eugenics -- History -- 19th century
Photomontage -- History -- 19th century
Aristocracy (Social class) -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Pictorial works
School photography -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History -- 19th century
ART -- Subjects & Themes -- Portraits.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- History.
Aristocracy (Social class)
Eugenics.
Photography -- Social aspects.
Photomontage.
School photography.
Massachusetts -- Boston.
United States.
Genre/Form History.
Pictorial works.
Form Electronic book
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